WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- A congressional hearing turned into a verbal slugging match when Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa cut off the mic of Ranking Member Elijah Cummings.
Lois Lerner, a former IRS official and a target in the Republican chairman's investigation into an alleged political targeting scandal, refused to testify at the hearing Wednesday. Saying he had "no expectation Ms. Lerner would cooperate with this committee," Issa, R-Calif., abruptly adjourned the meeting.